Barkeria lindleyana Bateman ex Lindl. 1842 Photo Courtesy of Lourens Grobler

White Color Form Photo Courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flowering plant in situ in Mexico Photo Courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey

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Common Name Lindley's Barkeria [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 6 cm]

Found from Mexico to Costa Rica as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that occurs at elevations of 200 to 2500 meters in semi-deciduous and deciduous forests with cane-like stems enveloped with basal leaf sheaths and oblanceolate, acute, clasping at the base leaves and blooms on a 32" [80 cm] long, arcuate, laxly few to many [5 to 20] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature stem with grayish papery bracts and large, showy, nodding flowers occuring in the fall.

Synonyms Barkeria linleyana var centrae Rchb.f 1873; Barkeria linleyana ssp. lindleyana [Batem. ex Lindl. Thein 1970; Epidendrum lindleyanum (Bateman) Rchb. f. 1862; Epidendrum lindleyanum var centrae [Rchb.f] Veitch 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Minature Orchids Northen 1980; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Mora & Atwood 1992; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982 as Epidendrum lindleyanum; Illustrated Encyclopoedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb and Laurent 1982; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005

Barkeria lindleyana subsp. vanneriana (Rchb. f.) Thien 1970 to

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